I think we have slightly yes.
But Difficult time for the club. We are currently paying most heavily for poor recruitment from LVG and Moyes. Signed one or two players who are good enough under LVG, none under Moyes. Add that to a squad that Fergie would have had to rebuild and we have problems there. Would love to have seen Fergie stay and have the 700 million over 5/6 years that we’ve spent. Or would like to have seen a different manager who had a clue about recruitment get all of that, my suspicion is we’d have a good back 4 and a right winger by now. And none of Darmian, Mata, Rojo, Fellaini, Shaw, Jones, Young and Valencia any more, would have been replaced or phased out. Our youth teams also have been performing poorly and not producing much first team material.
At the same time, Premier League has shifted. As well as becoming a rich boys playground for ownerships, On top of that the fact that TV money has got to the point where mid table premier league teams can spend 150 million a transfer window if they like, and many can now compete for the same bracket of player, we can’t rely on our global fanbase, shirt sales and sponsorships to dominate the league anymore. No more starting the season saying ‘Man Utd will win the league, maybe Arsenal if they are lucky’ or later on after 2004 ‘Man Utd or Chelsea this year?’.
SAF was our first great and long lasting manager since Busby and we should remember between them the late 70’s and 80’s when we were crud, played in the second tier at one stage and went through a shed load of managers, even big Ron haha.
Thing is SAF wasn’t going to Be here forever and we need to stop comparing everything to him and his class of 92 team or his Rooney and Ronaldo teams or we are going to be forever disappointed.
Think the club needs some stability. DoF wouldn’t go amiss, some action plans on the youth teams, and a stable manager who can give the team some sort of identity again, bring the fans together behind what’s going on on the pitch and build a squad of exciting youngish players again.
I’m not really pro or anti mourinho but I feel at this point he’s not the man for the job that needs doing. At the same time if we just sack him and appoint the first man available that’s not going to fix the underlying problems either.